We've found 10 quotes for 're-formation' (0.131 seconds):
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"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." »Dr. Rob Gilbert
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"Education has for its object the formation of character." »Herbert Spencer
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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." »John Dewey
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"I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely." »Andrew Soloman, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond
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"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed." »Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - referring to the military system
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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." »Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism." »John Calhoun
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"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance." »W. R. Inge
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"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g
j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld." »Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"
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